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According to CBC, a phone number used to give false information during last year’s election has been determined. The name registered is Pierre Poutine.

Apparently people in Guelph received calls from this number during last May. They were then told that their polling location had changed and given the location of a “new” one. The location had not changed however.

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper denied that robocalls were a fixture in the Conservative party’s election campaign.

Public daycare workers in Quebec are on strike, but will soon be reaching a tentative deal with the government.

According to CBC, union representatives from 360 Centres de petite enface have already approved the agreement.

The deal will provide an increase in wages, vacation hours, and benefits for daycare employees.

The new contract will be effective until March 31, 2015.

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The G20 has not come up with a consensus on Europe’s Debt Crisis at its meeting in Mexico City.

According to the CBC, the representatives from the world’s leading economies have been working on a second global rescue package in order to stop the crisis from spreading.

Student protesters blocking Jacques Cartier Bridge at rush hour yesterday were shut down by police.

According to the Montreal Gazette three hundred students were blocking a main bridge connecting Montreal to the South Shore for almost an hour yesterday.

Montreal Police used pepper spray to disperse the crowd after warnings to leave weren’t observed. One arrest was confirmed.

Students were protesting the almost two thousand dollar increase in tuition fees expected to take place over the next five years.